Authentication Bypass Affecting vncauthproxy package, versions [,1.2.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.18% (85th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications

Snyk Learn

Learn about Authentication Bypass vulnerabilities in an interactive lesson.

Start learning
  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-VNCAUTHPROXY-3023023
  • published14 Sept 2022
  • disclosed14 Sept 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Sep 2022

CVE-2022-36436  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade VNCAuthProxy to version 1.2.0 or higher.

Overview

VNCAuthProxy is an A Twisted-based VNC proxy

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass that allows a malicious actor to gain unauthorized access to a VNC session or to disconnect a legitimate user from a VNC session.

Note: The exploitation of this issue requires that the proxy server is currently accepting connections for the target VNC server.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1